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Half-Life 2: Signs of the Times, Part 2

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation," Henry David Thoreau once wrote. The rest of them use the Gravity Gun to pick up manhacks and use them like a chainsaw to cut headcrab zombies into bacon. How cool is that?

Anyways, Half-Life 2 is a game of subtlety and finesse. Aw, who am I kidding? There's no subtlety in driving a buggy through a pack of 20 or 30 Antlions. That's just a prelude to good eats. James "ZeN" Battersby also picked up on Half-Life 2's quiet and haunting beauty:

He also points out that you should visit his website, where he's involved in the lucrative operation of making forum signature graphics. On the subject of Manhacks, I think Matthew Corriveau's sign was probably more effective:

Marty Zmiejko, meanwhile, had a few issues with the game's story:

And finally, an important announcement from GameSpy reader Nezill:

I think that together we've made City 17 a safer place. Mostly this is because I kept most of my readers off the streets and using MS Paint. Now that my column is done, you have no such guarantees. See you next week! •